Discover what's next, track what you're watching, and jump straight into an episode —
all wrapped around your real MyAnimeList account.
Try it now · Features · Get Started · Android App
Why Starotaku
Most anime trackers make you choose: a clean list manager with no discovery, or a discovery
site that can't touch your list. Starotaku does both, on top of the account you already have on
MyAnimeList — no new sign-up, no second source of truth, no data silo.
Features
🧭 Discover something new
- Rankings for anime and manga — airing now, upcoming, all-time top, most popular, most
favorited — browsable by tab, with more loading as you scroll
- Seasonal archive — flip through any year and season the way MyAnimeList's own archive does
- Unified search across anime and manga, built right into Browse
- Rich detail pages — synopsis, key info, related titles, and recommendations for what to
watch or read next
▶️ Watch without leaving the app
- Jump from an anime's detail page straight into an episode
- Automatically falls back to an alternate source if a stream is blocked, so playback keeps working
- Episode progress is tracked as you watch, syncing back to your MyAnimeList list
📖 Read without leaving the app
- Hit Read Now on any manga, manhwa or manhua and open a chapter straight away
- Finds each title on several sources and picks the most complete one, with a one-tap switch
- Page-by-page reader: swipe, tap an edge, use the arrow keys, or drag the slider; switch to a
long scroll for webtoons (the default for manhwa and manhua)
- Continue Reading picks up at your next unread chapter, and finishing a chapter updates your
MyAnimeList progress. You can also tick chapters off in the list to catch up or undo.
- Chapter lists paged and sortable oldest- or newest-first, remembered across titles
✅ Track your way
- Full My Anime List and My Manga List management — status, score, and progress, edited
inline without leaving the grid
- Filter your list by genre, rating, or release date, and search within it
- Profile page with your account stats at a glance
🔐 Actually yours
- Sign in with your real MyAnimeList account (OAuth2) — every visitor gets their own session,
never a shared login, and Starotaku never sees your password
🎨 Built to feel native
- Light and dark themes
- Responsive from phone to desktop — a bottom nav and full-screen sheets on mobile, an inline
nav on desktop
- Installable as a Progressive Web App, or as a real Android app
Getting Started
- Register an app on MyAnimeList (Profile Settings → API), type "other" (PKCE public client). Set the redirect URI to
http://localhost:3001/auth/callback.
- Configure this app's environment:
cp .env.example .env.local
# MAL_CLIENT_ID: from your MAL app registration
- Install dependencies and start the dev server:
pnpm install
pnpm dev
- Open http://localhost:3001 and log in with MyAnimeList from the nav bar.
For Developers
Built with Next.js 16 (App Router, Server Components, Server Actions) and TypeScript, styled
with Tailwind CSS v4 and Radix UI, talking directly to the MyAnimeList API v2
— there's no backend of its own to run or deploy.
| Command | What it does |
|---|
pnpm dev | Start the dev server (:3001) |
pnpm build / pnpm start | Production build / run it |
pnpm typecheck / pnpm lint | Type-check and lint |
pnpm test / pnpm test:e2e | Unit tests (Vitest) / end-to-end tests (Playwright, against a mock MAL API) |
Android App (Trusted Web Activity)
Starotaku ships as a real Android app via a Trusted Web Activity (TWA) — Chrome renders the actual production site (https://starotaku.vercel.app/) full-screen inside a thin native wrapper (android/, using androidbrowserhelper). It is not a WebView wrapper and does not bundle a copy of the app — the Android project has no business logic of its own, so the site keeps working (and updating) exactly as it does in a browser.
A. Required tools
- JDK 17+ (JDK 21 works) to run Gradle.
- Android SDK — easiest via Android Studio (open
android/ as a project and it will offer to install missing SDK components), or the standalone command-line tools + sdkmanager if you'd rather not install the full IDE.
- Optionally, the Bubblewrap CLI (
npm i -g @bubblewrap/cli) if you'd rather regenerate/update the Android project from android/twa-manifest.json than hand-edit Gradle files.
B. Package / application ID
- Package ID:
to.myanilist.app (set in android/app/build.gradle's namespace/applicationId, android/twa-manifest.json, and public/.well-known/assetlinks.json). Keep all three in sync if you ever change it. Kept as-is from this project's original name despite the app-facing rebrands (first to Anivio, now to Starotaku) — changing it would create a new Play Store listing rather than updating the existing one.
- App name: Starotaku (
android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml).
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